Happy Oscars, Everyone!

It's the Super Bowl of movies tonight and Hollywood will give awards for the films of 2007.

Here at the Diner, we give out the traditional coffee mug with the gold rim around the top (now, that's FANCY!) for only the six major categories. Here's our awards:

Best Supporting Actor: (and the coffee mug goes to...) Javier Bardem! in No Country for Old Men. The only bad guys in the movies that can compete for darkest bad guy ever are Darth Vader and Hanibal Lector.

Best Supporting Actress: (and the coffee mug goes to...) Amy Ryan! for Gone Baby, Gone. I know that Tilda Swinton will win the Oscar, but I thought Amy Ryan's role was more difficult.

Best Director: (and the coffee mug goes to...) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen! for No Country for Old Men. That setting, in the brown/dusty southwest. True to the book. A great film that could've gone wrong in less capable hands.

Best Actor: (and the coffee mug goes to...) Tommy Lee Jones for In The Valley of Elah. Okay. It's fair to say that I didn't see that movie...but he was awesome in No Country so I'm giving it to him for that role. But he wasn't nominated in that category. We can do what we want here at The Diner.

Best Actress: (and the coffee mug goes to...) Ellen Page! for Juno. If there was a better performance in the last 5 years in a movie I didn't see it. She was brilliant and funny and wonderful. She stole the show.

And, for...

...Best Picture: (and the coffee mug goes to...) No Country For Old Men! It's very tempting to give it to Juno or even Into The Wild (which didn't even get nominated, man...and that goofy Michael Clayton did, which only shows that George Clooney is in with the Academy--but we won't fall for it here, folks. Rest assured.) But, manalive, what a great movie...and the true-to-the-book ending instead of the Hollywood ending made it even better in my mind!

Your awards, patrons?